AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 1, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received the following participants in the synod for Europe:

- Presidents delegate: Cardinals Franciszek Macharski, archbishop of Krakow, Poland; Joachim Meisner, archbishop of Cologne, Germany and Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
- Relator General: Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, archbishop of Madrid, Spain.
- Secretary General: Cardinal Jan Pieter Schotte C.I.C.M., secretary general of the Synod of Bishops.
- Special Secretaries: Archbishop Jozef Miroslaw Zycinski of Lublin, Poland and Bishop Vincent Nichols, auxiliary of Westminster, Great Britain.

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